Talk:kärsiä

RFV discussion: April–May 2022

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kärsiä

Finnish. Rfv-sense: "(of an animal like elephant or pig) To dig or feel something with one's trunk or snout." So obscure Suomen murteiden sanakirja does not even have a proper definition, but at least it has it... — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 17:17, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Does not seem real to me. I have heard this sense once, sort of. It was a Q/A type joke, that is impossible to translate, while preserving the pun. It goes like this:

-Mitä norsupappi sanoo vihkiessään norsuparin?

-???

- Kärsikää toisianne.

--Hekaheka (talk) 16:46, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

If you were not familiar with the sense when you heard the joke, then how did you come to realize it was a pun?  --Lambiam 07:46, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

I need to try to translate it in order to try to explain.

-What does an elephant priest say when he joins an elephant couple in matrimony?

-???

-Snout each other. (ha-ha, did you get it?)

Explanation: "kärsiä" has a dialectal meaning "to tolerate, get along with" (which we are missing). On the other hand it might be understood as a verb formed from the noun kärsä (“snout”). --Hekaheka (talk) 19:32, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

RFV-deleted — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 21:59, 20 May 2022 (UTC)